This Tree Is Absolutely Stunning, But What Makes It So Special Is Everything That Grows From It

It sounds like something out of a fairytale: a tree that blooms in a gorgeous color and produces a bounty of every kind of fruit you can imagine. Artist and Syracuse University art professor Sam Van Aken envisioned such a thing and set out to make "The Tree of 40 Fruits" a reality.

For "The Tree of 40 Fruits,” he focused on stone fruits, sometimes known as drupes to botanists. Stone fruits have an outer fleshy part that surrounds a shelled seed. Apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, dates, and mangos fall under this classification.